City Lit: Placing the Blame

A book review of The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A. and the Fate of America’s Big Cities, by Fred Siegel, The Free Press, 1997, 260 pages, $24.

City Lit: Harlem Benighted

A book review of Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, by Gilbert Osofsky, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1997 (orig. 1966), 276 pages, paper $14.95.